I want to make sure I get this right – you want Disney to get legally involved in parental behavior. Do you also want Universal, Sea World/Busch Gardens, and Legoland to become involved as well? Or is it just Disney?
These parents are just as abusive at home if not more so. Parents are legally allowed to yell at and even hit their kids “within reason” (who’s reason?) under the guise of “good parenting”.
Social media is filled with threads of parents who won’t parent, posts remembering the “good old days” where a good whalloping never hurt–and even improved–someone’s attitude. “I turned out fine!” the writers will say.
As a child of a “good parent” who “spanked” and yelled at us for “discipline” I can solidly say, I did *NOT* turn out fine and my parents, while sort of apologetic about it will only say “we did the best we could, we thought we were doing the right thing”.
Anyway….A day at DW is stressful for families. It’s hot, everyone is tired as the day wears on and for many it’s a once in a lifetime trip–no one wants to miss anything. All of these things make for tense parents who are “doing the best they can”.
There’s no excuse for screaming at or hitting a child–but to expect a CM to get involved seems a pretty big systemic issue to tackle. The only thing I could think would be for DW to implement some sort of de-escalation training for CMs.
Exactly. The days of being their friend and giving everyone a participation ribbon need to end. A parent’s job is to raise a child up into a productive member of society and if that occasionally requires a firm correction, so be it. I don’t condone slapping a child, but a tap on the behind gets their attention and they know you mean business.
A competent, knowledgeable and CARING parent, especially about factual child-development science, is what matters most when deciding to be a selfless parent. Too many people will procreate regardless of their inability to rear children in a psychologically functional/healthy manner.
In the book Childhood Disrupted the author writes that, “[even] well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development” (pg.24).
Many people [perhaps you included] perceive thus treat human procreative ‘rights’ as though they [people] will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture our children’s naturally developing minds and needs.
Being free nations, society cannot prevent anyone from bearing children; society can, however, educate our young people for the most important job ever, even those who plan to remain childless.
Even if unhindered abuse is bodily survived, it usually results in a helpless child’s brain improperly developing.
Resultant intense emotional and/or psychological trauma acts as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
It amounts to non-physical-impact brain damage. … It has been described as a continuous, discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly you will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.
The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others.
It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated.
I believe that, as a moral rule, a physically-/mentally-sound future definitely must be every child’s fundamental right, especially when considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.
Comments for Guests Shocked at Further Displays of Child Abuse at Disney Parks
James
I want to make sure I get this right – you want Disney to get legally involved in parental behavior. Do you also want Universal, Sea World/Busch Gardens, and Legoland to become involved as well? Or is it just Disney?
beth
These parents are just as abusive at home if not more so. Parents are legally allowed to yell at and even hit their kids “within reason” (who’s reason?) under the guise of “good parenting”.
Social media is filled with threads of parents who won’t parent, posts remembering the “good old days” where a good whalloping never hurt–and even improved–someone’s attitude. “I turned out fine!” the writers will say.
As a child of a “good parent” who “spanked” and yelled at us for “discipline” I can solidly say, I did *NOT* turn out fine and my parents, while sort of apologetic about it will only say “we did the best we could, we thought we were doing the right thing”.
Anyway….A day at DW is stressful for families. It’s hot, everyone is tired as the day wears on and for many it’s a once in a lifetime trip–no one wants to miss anything. All of these things make for tense parents who are “doing the best they can”.
There’s no excuse for screaming at or hitting a child–but to expect a CM to get involved seems a pretty big systemic issue to tackle. The only thing I could think would be for DW to implement some sort of de-escalation training for CMs.
hey gee
Kids need a good smack when they’re acting up
We need more of this from parents
erjen
Exactly. The days of being their friend and giving everyone a participation ribbon need to end. A parent’s job is to raise a child up into a productive member of society and if that occasionally requires a firm correction, so be it. I don’t condone slapping a child, but a tap on the behind gets their attention and they know you mean business.
Frank Sterle Jr.
What some parents do can be quite wrong.
A competent, knowledgeable and CARING parent, especially about factual child-development science, is what matters most when deciding to be a selfless parent. Too many people will procreate regardless of their inability to rear children in a psychologically functional/healthy manner.
In the book Childhood Disrupted the author writes that, “[even] well-meaning and loving parents can unintentionally do harm to a child if they are not well informed about human development” (pg.24).
Many people [perhaps you included] perceive thus treat human procreative ‘rights’ as though they [people] will somehow, in blind anticipation, be innately inclined to sufficiently understand and appropriately nurture our children’s naturally developing minds and needs.
Being free nations, society cannot prevent anyone from bearing children; society can, however, educate our young people for the most important job ever, even those who plan to remain childless.
Frank Sterle Jr.
Even if unhindered abuse is bodily survived, it usually results in a helpless child’s brain improperly developing.
Resultant intense emotional and/or psychological trauma acts as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
It amounts to non-physical-impact brain damage. … It has been described as a continuous, discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly you will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.
The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others.
It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated.
I believe that, as a moral rule, a physically-/mentally-sound future definitely must be every child’s fundamental right, especially when considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.
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